to Bob in Puget Sound

Now that we are back,

Atty. Bob in Puget Sound, we are taking this avenue to let you know about what seems to be a recent development in vegetable rubber bands. If trends flow east to west, you will doubtlessly see these bands in your stores eventually.

Or, if from west to east, you probably already have a sleeve of asparagus bands.

>But are you using them for beard pony-tails, as the ed. is here????<

"Times change, and with them, their demands": that was never truer than in this instance. It seems like only yesterday when you and I were in the fields on our hands and knees, bunching radishes with with plain unmarked rubber bands! The bands then were also much thinner than these asparagus bands, you will observe. Times were tough, but even then we had a tendency toward secretness.

We just found out about the t-i-t-l-e-d asparagus bands, and are taking this opportunity to let you know with the rest of the w.w.w. cosmos because there is precious little time for individual letter-writing now that our writers' strike has been resolved.

You've got to wonder if the maker of the asparagus band is also a manufacturer of the WWJD bands all the rage right now? Or as we saw recently, WWJ NOT D?

Hope all is well with the seaweed harvest. (Maybe there will be a band for you that says simply WEED. Or do you have them already?)